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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

For reference:

- http://kicad-pcb.org/help/file-formats/

- https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/blob/master/library/device.dcm



On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Fabrizio Tappero <
fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> cheers Oliver,
> I do not know what a .dcm file is.
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> I am not sure it is a good idea to have a in-built field called
> Description in the table viewer. But I can easily see how that is useful. I
> guess you would like to use this table to add info. This makes it non a
> table viewer. The current icon label says "Component table view" which I
> find ambiguous. Maybe Wayne can jump in with a proper name for it.
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> I am having the feeling the development of this table did not come from a
> clean plan of having an XYZ tool. Or maybe is just me. Please dont get me
> wrong, I love this table (and the soon to come new icon) but it might be a
> good idea to drop the word viewer for it if we want the (great) ability to
> edit stuff.
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> I hope this helps.
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> Fabrizio
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> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Oliver Walters <
> oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Fabrizio,
>>
>> 1. You have added a custom field called "Description".
>> 2. The table viewer has an "inbuild" field called "Description". It
>> populates this field with the component description which is found in the
>> .dcm files
>>
>> Here's what I see.
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>> Here I have added the custom "description" field with dummy data to only
>> one component.
>>
>> The first "Description" column is filled with the symbol descriptions
>> from the .dcm files in the library.
>>
>> If you are missing the .dcm files then your first column will be empty.
>>
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>> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Fabrizio Tappero <
>> fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Oliver,
>>> not sure I understand the question. This is what my schematic components
>>> fields look like:
>>>
>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> Fabrizio
>>>
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>>> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Previous bug even works without modifying a field, all I have to do is
>>>> enter a field edit mode and click somewhere else, and that field's value
>>>> will be copied to where ever I clicked, this will cause a lot of grief when
>>>> users decide to cancel editing and click elsewhere to discard changes, or
>>>> so they think that's what should have happened.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A few more things:
>>>> 1. When I click Apply changes, the RED markings/modified fields should
>>>> disappear when the changes have been successfully applied
>>>> 2. Undo/Redo should work inside Component Table to undo each user
>>>> action, instead of having the user to discard all changes and start over
>>>> 3. There's something weird going on when you try to edit a field, it
>>>> seems that have to click 4 times to enter edit mode, 2 times is what I
>>>> expect. Also perhaps some weird delay that prevents me from entering edit
>>>> mode.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:39 AM, Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Oliver, found another unexpected behaviour.
>>>>> When I select a field to edit, for example to replace a "Part Number"
>>>>> field from AAA to BBB, when I type in BBB but instead of hitting enter, I
>>>>> click on the next field below it which belongs to another part, then BBB
>>>>> modifies that part's field instead of where the editing took place.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:28 AM, Oliver Walters <
>>>>> oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The "Description" field should be showing the description of each
>>>>>> symbol as it appears in the .dcm file. It was working for me - do your
>>>>>> symbols not have those descriptions?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Fabrizio Tappero <
>>>>>> fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>>>> great ! you guys almost fixed it. It looks like the column
>>>>>>> "Description" appears twice and one of the two is completely empty.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> cheers
>>>>>>> Fabrizio
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <
>>>>>>> stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Oliver,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I committed your patch.  Thank you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Wayne
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 5/22/2017 10:08 AM, Oliver Walters wrote:
>>>>>>>> > Bug noted here - https://lists.launchpad.net/ki
>>>>>>>> cad-developers/msg29485.html
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > Patch attached to this email fixes glitch when user adds custom
>>>>>>>> field
>>>>>>>> > with same name as a default field.
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > Users can now do this to their heart's content.
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> >
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>>>>> --
>>>>> Remember The Past, Live The Present, Change The Future
>>>>> Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the
>>>>> future [JFK]
>>>>>
>>>>> kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>> Live Long and Prosper,
>>>>> Andrey
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Remember The Past, Live The Present, Change The Future
>>>> Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the
>>>> future [JFK]
>>>>
>>>> kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx
>>>> Live Long and Prosper,
>>>> Andrey
>>>>
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